Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin for Piano, Four Hands, Op. 19
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Juho Pohjonen
Orion Weiss
Pianist Juho Pohjonen is in demand internationally as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber performer. An ardent exponent of Scandinavian music, he has a growing discography offering music by Finnish compatriots such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kaija Saariaho, and Jean Sibelius. Recent engagements include the Taiwan, BBC, and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras; the Cleveland and Minnesota orchestras; and the symphonies of San Francisco, Atlanta, New Jersey, and Colorado. Pohjonen is an alum of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program and enjoys an ongoing relationship with the organization. Pohjonen earned a master’s degree from Meri Louhos and Hui-Ying Liu-Tawaststjerna at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He was selected by Sir András Schiff as the winner of the 2009 Klavier Festival Ruhr Scholarship. In 2019, Pohjonen launched MyPianist, an AI-based app that provides interactive piano accompaniment.
Orion Weiss has performed with the major orchestras of North America including the Chicago Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Boston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and New York Philharmonic and at major venues and festivals worldwide. Known for his affinity for chamber music, he performs regularly with violinists James Ehnes, Augustin Hadelich, and William Hagen, pianists Michael Stephen Brown and Roman Rabinovich, and the Ariel, Parker, Ehnes, Calidore, and Pacifica Quartets. Weiss can be heard on the Naxos, Telos, Bridge, First Hand, Yarlung, and Artek labels. He has been awarded the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year, Gilmore Young Artist Award, and an Avery Fisher Career Grant. A native of Ohio and an alum of CMS’s Bower Program, Weiss attended the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, where he studied with Emanuel Ax.
Recorded live in Alice Tully Hall on January 24, 2016.
Video produced by Ibis Productions.